Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrei Kostin said that the number of crimes in the military field in the country increased sharply last year. Ukrinform reports this.
“Over the past year… seven Ministry of Defense officials have been notified of suspected criminal corruption offences,” he said.
According to him, among them there are officials who, according to the investigation, purchased low-quality bulletproof vests.
He also reported that last year, more than 220 criminal proceedings were initiated for crimes related to military records, which, in his opinion, is “more than 4 times more than in 2022.”
January 8 reportedThe Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has accused the country’s former Deputy Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Shapovalov of embezzling 948 million hryvnia (about $25 million). The former head of the ministry’s procurement department, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, was named as Shapovalov’s accomplice. This is already the fourth suspicion leveled against these officials. According to investigators, they are guilty of purchasing 50 thousand unusable bulletproof vests for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Previously unnamed Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine accused Almost a billion hryvnia was wasted.
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Source: Gazeta
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